Mariscal Mine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Mariscal Mine, also known as the Lindsey Mine and the Ellis Mine, was a source of cinnabar ore that was refined at the Texas site into mercury. The mine is located in what is now Big Bend National Park.”
Wikipedia article Mariscal Mine, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Brewster County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. River Rd., Big Bend National Park, 79834
When was it listed? September 1974
Category. district
Census division. Alpine
National Register reference number. 74000279 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Mariscal Mine between 1997 and 2008, burning about 55 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 July 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	PIEDRA
10 May 1998	Debris and open burning	39 acres	Big Bend National Park	MOM'S DAY
10 February 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Big Bend National Park	SAN VICENTE1

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mariscal Mine: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mariscal Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1900, 1917, 1943
Big Bend National Park Deposits	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Vincente Sierra San Norte	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite

Every working recorded in Brewster County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000279 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brewster County	All 14 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.